Indeed, the powerful underlying consensus on social welfare both in the narrow sense as well as more broadly defined--TANF and Food Stamps on the one hand and OASDHI on the other--may even be strengthened by displacing social conflict to largely symbolic and procedural issues that preserve more important social values.

Although these rates alone do not appear excessively high, employers may perceive them as oppressive when OASDHI payroll taxes and workers' compensation premiums (based on payroll) are also taken into consideration.

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